(987 quotes found)
“Don't want to cover old ground”
Proverb
“As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.”
Craig Kilborn
“Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“I really concentrated on ways to look fabulous but covered,”
Elizabeth Hurley
“And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof: / And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a bar: / And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon: / And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it.”
Bible
“I don't give a crap if you covered yourself in peanut butter and had a 15 hooker gang bang!”
Leigh Whannell
“Working as a bookbinder, I had put covers on "The Lord of the Rings," but I never read it. It was just too big. I finally read it when I knew I was playing Pippin and realized that really it is all about Pippin and some other people!”
Billy Boyd
“Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in its neck, [the empty bottle] was an unmistakable badge of sophomore sophistication.”
Nancy Harmon Jenkins
“I like the biplanes, ... They don't have (cockpit) coverings. They're just out in the open.”
Erik Nielsen
“Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.”
Joseph Brodsky
